Mailman

Mailman

Description

Mailman is free software for managing electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists. Mailman is integrated with the web, making it easy for users to manage their accounts and for list owners to administer their lists. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, spam filters, and more.

Thanks to Gordon Rowell for developing the rpms.

Installation

wget http://www.gormand.com.au/smeserver/WIP/smeserver-mailman/smeserver-mailman-1.3.0-14.noarch.rpm
wget http://www.gormand.com.au/smeserver/WIP/smeserver-mailman/mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.3sme01.i386.rpm
yum localinstall mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.3sme01.i386.rpm smeserver-mailman-1.3.0-14.noarch.rpm

You should now see a Mailman section under the Configuration section of the server-manager.

Configuration

File locations

/var/lib/mailman           location of mailman lists and archives
/usr/lib/mailman           location of mailman program files
/usr/lib/mailman/aliases   location of qmail alias files

Creating lists

Go to http://domain.name/mailman to create new lists.

If your SMEServer has multiple domains configured, do not prepend www. before the virtual domain.

For example: go to http:// virtualdomain.name/mailman to create lists for that domain name.

Command line options

You can do a lot using the command line scripts located in /usr/lib/mailman/bin

For example

/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mmsitepass                 will set the master password for all lists
/usr/lib/mailman/bin/list-members [listname]    will list the members of [listname]

running the script with --help will display the options available

For more information

Mailman website http://www.list.org/ Mailman FAQ http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=all

Current Issues

Check submitted bugs in the bug tracker under the contrib component "smeserver-mailman"

Current mailman release is 2.1.9

Bug 2411 - /usr/lib/mailman/aliases and /var/lib/mailman are not currently part of our backup/restore set.